Secret City, Poisoned Lives. Ann Imse.
by Imse, Ann; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 45Environment. Publisher: Rocky Mountain News, 2003ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Nuclear reactor accidents | Nuclear weapons -- Soviet Union | Nuclear weapons plants | Radiation injuries | Radioactivity -- Physiological effect | SecrecyDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Gennady Krasnov is 67, and he has sunken eyes, red ears and unnaturally black hair. As a child, he helped his father spy on the Nazis who surrounded his hometown of Leningrad--now St. Petersburg--for 900 days. As an adult, he was proud to work on the nuclear reactor at Mayak, helping to produce plutonium for Soviet atom bombs. He loved his Russia. But one day in May 1988, there was an accident at Mayak, one that could have caused unimaginable damage, 'like Chernobyl, only far worse,' he said. Obeying orders, he climbed onto the danger zone atop the reactor to remove a stuck fuel rod. The point of Krasnov's tale is not his heroism. It's that his bosses, trying to preserve the myth of safety, won't admit it ever happened." (ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS) This author contends that the once-secret Mayak nuclear weapons plant "stirred deep patriotism in its workers even as it sickened and killed many of them."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Secret City, Poisoned Lives, Feb. 24, 2003; pp. n.p..
"Gennady Krasnov is 67, and he has sunken eyes, red ears and unnaturally black hair. As a child, he helped his father spy on the Nazis who surrounded his hometown of Leningrad--now St. Petersburg--for 900 days. As an adult, he was proud to work on the nuclear reactor at Mayak, helping to produce plutonium for Soviet atom bombs. He loved his Russia. But one day in May 1988, there was an accident at Mayak, one that could have caused unimaginable damage, 'like Chernobyl, only far worse,' he said. Obeying orders, he climbed onto the danger zone atop the reactor to remove a stuck fuel rod. The point of Krasnov's tale is not his heroism. It's that his bosses, trying to preserve the myth of safety, won't admit it ever happened." (ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS) This author contends that the once-secret Mayak nuclear weapons plant "stirred deep patriotism in its workers even as it sickened and killed many of them."
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